单词 | standing stool |
释义 | > as lemmasstanding stool standing stool n. a device that resembles a stool and is designed to support a baby while it learns to stand upright and walk.historical after mid 19th cent. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > stool > [noun] > other stools standing stool1578 Turkey stool1640 back-stool1762 bar-stool1922 riempie stool1933 step-stool1966 1578 in M. A. Havinden Househ. & Farm Inventories Oxfordshire (1965) 91 A presse and a standdyne stole. 1600 Weakest goeth to Wall sig. F3 Get him a standing stoole, And then perhaps the child will learne to goe. 1656 R. Fletcher Poems in Ex Otio Negotium 130 The elf dares peep abroad, the pretty foole Can wag without a truckling standing-stoole. 1834 D. Atkins Med. & Surg. Cases & Observ. 86 He was placed in a standing stool upon rollers, and made to push himself about. 1899 A. M. Earle Child Life Colonial Days i. 23 A standing-stool a century old in which Newburyport babies stood and toddled is a rather crude frame of wood with a ledge or narrow table for toys. 2008 Hoosier Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 9 Nov. (Herald-Times ed.) f5/3 Standing stools, also called baby walkers or baby minders, were shown in pictures as early as the 15th century. < as lemmas |
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